èVita Armonia Gourmet potatoes have gone on sale, the brand new premium product from the Romagnoli èVita brand
èVita Armonia Gourmet potatoes have gone on sale, the brand new premium product from the Romagnoli èVita brand
Thanks to this project, by purchasing a bag of Romagnoli potatoes at an Iper store, you will help support the community’s activities!
èVita Armonia Gourmet potatoes were voted the best product in the new entry category 2024 in a poll by the magazine GDOWeek
Despite yields as much as 15% lower than 2023 due to the unfavourable weather conditions, production maintained a high standard
Romagnoli F.lli’s sustainable agri-food culture balances protecting crops, the environment and people’s well-being
Protecting the environment and nature conservation are key parts of the company policy of this potato-grower from Bologna
Romagnoli reduces the environmental impact of production by upholding its social and ethical responsibility to communities.
The long-standing capacity for collaboration between Sicilian farms and this Emilian company is essential for producing high-quality products
Promoting food education, offering healthy, sustainable choices, and engaging young people to improve health and well-being
Romagnoli is committed to reducing its environmental impact, cutting water consumption and saving resources
Our amazing Sicilian new potatoes are nearly ready, grown by the best farms around Syracuse in our well-established production chain
Women account for 65% of Romagnoli F.lli’s total workforce
Good food restores your well-being, it excites and it entertains
Confirming its commitment to innovation, the supply chain and continuous improvements of company practices
They will be handed out over the next two months to local food banks
The company is expanding into the “ready to heat” market and is serving all the goodness and wholesomeness of fresh potatoes, fully cooked and ready in just a few minutes!
This potato company recognises the importance of education and active engagement as key elements for a positive change in society.
Romagnoli F.lli guarantees the safety, quality and transparency of its foods, offering benefits to distribution and the end consumer.
The company promotes equal treatment, pay equity and supports parenting, improving the quality of life of employees.
Dreams, rules and life: the theme of the 15th edition will analyse how to make the impossible possible!
Over €40 million in revenue, with more than 50,000 tonnes of products sold.
This company from Bologna was one of the promoters of the men’s and women’s 3 v 3 street basketball tournament organised by Carlton Myers on the Rimini seafront.
Supply chain organisation and the creation of trusted relationships with farms support the production campaign in Sicily.
The company supports University of Bologna student community events.
Romagnoli promotes sustainable farming practices all throughout the value chain in order to ensure that the consumer gets a high-quality traceable product.
This potato company is committed to protecting the region’s natural systems and biodiversity, using common natural resources sustainably.
To reduce food waste, scraps and leftovers from cooking can become the star of the show in healthy, easy and delicious dishes.
People are the most valuable asset for the company’s future.
Working in harmony between the environment, production and the region to protect the planet.
In Syracuse, plants are developing normally and the products are a good size despite adverse weather conditions.
In its company selection and recruitment process, Romagnoli F.lli has always worked with the utmost respect for equal gender opportunities.
Romagnoli is steering its choices in order to ensure that it limits or reduces the environmental impact of its production.
Potato-growing is feeling the effects of climate change, so Romagnoli has developed environmentally sustainable and innovative growing and irrigation techniques.
The potato varieties and products sold are the result of continuous Research and Development along all phases of the supply chain.
Romagnoli F.lli Spa is one of the businesses to have signed an agreement on the minimum price of potatoes
Giulio Romagnoli, the CEO of Romagnoli F.lli Spa: “We are renewing our commitment to produce healthy, affordable and responsible food, creating the company of the future day by day, a combination of tradition, ethics and solidarity”
From 22 to 30 November, at all Ce.Di. Gros stores in Lazio, when you buy a pack of “Patata di Campo-Amica dell’ambiente” potatoes, you will be supporting charities working around Lazio.
Romagnoli F.lli Spa ended 2021 with a turnover of over €37 million. Exports accounted for 3% of the total turnover. The slight drop in the amount of ware potatoes sold, totalling 29,355 t, is in line with the Italian market trend.
The CEO, Giulio Romagnoli: “This is a major new result as part of the company’s growth, proving the efficiency of our company policy”.
The special relationship has been confirmed with large-scale retail and farms, with a focus on trust and mutual intent.
Romagnoli F.lli is assessing the situation for producing new potatoes in the area around Syracuse. In fact, the weather conditions in this half of the year will have major consequences on the harvest and delays are expected in releasing the product to market.
From 28 January to 8 February, at all Ce.Di. Gros stores in Lazio, when you buy a pack of “Patata di Campo-Amica dell’ambiente”, we will donate a meal to people living in hardship.
Romagnoli F.lli has been working with this institute from Bologna for over ten years to monitor the quality of production and the technical and sensory characteristics of potato varieties.
64,500 meals donated thanks to sales of “Patata di Campo-Amica dell’ambiente” at Ce.Di. Gros stores in Lazio.
The company is unveiling the results of the trials that helped establish a potato-growing model with the lowest use of pesticides and by adopting tolerant varieties.
From 12 to 23 November, at all Ce.Di. Gros stores in Lazio, when you buy a pack of “Patata di Campo-Amica dell’ambiente”, we will donate a meal to people living in hardship.
Serramare Garden, a concept combining ‘plants and cooking’, is celebrating its 1st year together with Romagnoli F.lli potatoes, the stars of three gourmet creations made in collaboration with Francesco Aquila, the winner of MasterChef 10.
Working together with the University of Ferrara, Tuscia University and Legambiente to test the effects of green manure with Sudan grass as a biofumigant and on soil fertility.
In the three months from June to August, Romagnoli F.lli S.p.A. èVita Residue-Free potatoes recorded a sales increase of +203% compared with the same quarter last year.
Festival Francescano will be back in Bologna from 23 to 26 September 2021. Romagnoli F.lli is renewing its support once again this year as a partner to this initiative dedicated to issues of inclusion, which has now reached its thirteenth edition.
“Spicchi al naturale” and “Mini patate bio” are two premium product innovations for retail all about natural ingredients.
Research, experimentation and sustainable innovation for the Italian potato supply chain. These issues are at the centre of the meeting promoted by Romagnoli F.lli S.p.A. on the first day of Macfrut 2021.
Sustainable innovation and potato-growing: goals and plans for the future of the sector. This will be the framework for Romagnoli F.lli S.p.A.’s participation in Macfrut 2021 (Rimini Expo Centre, 7-9 September).
Romagnoli F.lli S.p.A. ended 2020 with a turnover of over €42 million and steady exports, accounting for 6% of total turnover.
Romagnoli F.lli S.p.A. takes the excellence of the Italian potato supply chain to TV during an episode of L’Ingrediente Perfetto, scheduled to be aired on 25 July at 10:50 am on LA7.
Serramare Garden in Cesenatico offers a sensory experience that celebrates the harmony among the fruits of the earth: plants, flowers and high-quality potatoes selected by Romagnoli F.lli.
Romagnoli F.lli is continuing to support the work of the Pilastro Development Agency, aimed at providing basic necessities to the most vulnerable families in the Pilastro neighbourhood in Bologna.
For the seventh year running, we have achieved IFS Food certification (an aspect which at our company is overseen by Grazia Romagnoli) for all activities relating to the processing of our products made at our production plant in Molinella (province of Bologna), with a score of 98.61% (Higher level).
To mark the start of new potatoes going on sale, Romagnoli F.lli is offering a product designed to enhance the typical outstanding potato from Sicily, which this year is excellent quality and a consistent size.
To reduce the water and energy consumption needed for irrigation, while at the same time limiting the use of synthetic chemicals.
Due to the substantial rain that has hit the province of Syracuse, the new potato sowing campaign in the area has been split into two separate stages - the first one from mid-October to early December and the second one from late December to mid-January - which will most likely be reflected in their market release date.
“From field research, a new line of 'resilient' potatoes that adapts to climate change and withstands diseases without any chemical residues. For agriculture that increasingly respects the soil and the environment”.
Romagnoli F.lli Spa èVita Residue-Free potatoes* have won the Brands Award 2020 New Entry prize for the “other foods” category.
For the 2020/2021 season, Romagnoli S.p.A. has confirmed its support for the Pallacanestro Budrio basketball team as its main sponsor.
Banco Alimentare Emilia-Romagna has handed out 50 tons of Romagnoli F.lli S.p.A. potatoes to 700 regional charities over the last few weeks, reaching over 100,000 people in need.
Romagnoli F.lli S.p.A. is continuing its path of research and innovation into sustainability for the entire potato supply chain, where the company works from sowing to marketing, and is announcing its commitment to a new experiment.
The 12th edition of Festival Francescano was unveiled today, taking place in Bologna and online from 25 to 27 September 2020.
On 7 September this year, Romagnoli S.p.A. took part in Think Fresh, one of the main annual events in the fruit and vegetable sector, which ran in a hybrid format this year, both in person and online.
Having decided to use it for All-uses èVita and èVita New ware potatoes, Romagnoli S.p.A. is rolling out the innovative Sormapeel packaging to èVita Residue-Free* potatoes which are Check Fruit-certified, 100% Italian and exclusively made by GLOBALG.A.P certified farms.
Romagnoli S.p.A. will take part in the first ever Macfrut Digital, a digital trade show dedicated to the world of fruit and vegetables scheduled from 8 to 10 September 2020.
Romagnoli Spa ended 2019 with a turnover of €44.5 million, recording an increase of +33.5% compared with last year.
For the third year running, Romagnoli F.lli S.p.A. took part in Festambiente, the ecology and solidarity festival organised by Legambiente in Rispescia (in the province of Grosseto) from 19th to 23rd August.
Following their launch on the market at the start of the year, Romagnoli F.lli S.p.A. èVita Residue-Free* potatoes, born out of the combination of resistant varieties and environmentally friendly growing techniques, are now being grown in the most suitable areas of Italy to guarantee consumers a safe and sustainable product all year round, made with respect for natural resources and biodiversity.
Our business is continuing its qualification procedure having renewed our IFS Food certification (Higher level) with a score of 98.40% for product processing, from storage to packaging, and for all process operations at our horticultural head office in Molinella (Bologna).
The Romagnoli F.lli S.p.A. 2019/20 potato harvest was a very good year, having ended back in April this year.
Solidarity can help bring the community together, and social stakeholders are called to play their part, each in their own way, particularly in extremely difficult situations.
Having been used for All-uses èVita potatoes, the Sormapeel vertbag is also being extended to the new potatoes in the same line and will soon be used for all èVita brand ware potatoes.
Romagnoli F.lli S.p.A. is taking its commitment to the environment one step further and choosing the innovative Sormapeel packaging for its all-uses èVita ware potatoes.
The ad campaign Selenella ― Consorzio Patata Italiana di Qualità (High-Quality Italian Potato Consortium) involving Romagnoli F.lli S.p.A. is back on the air, with its radio version dedicated to new potatoes, an outstanding 100% Italian product, fully traced and guaranteed from farm to table.
The potato supply chain has duly responded to the COVID-19 emergency with a sense of responsibility and continues to work while ensuring product availability, quality and safety for consumers.
At a difficult time like the current situation, it is more important than ever for Romagnoli F.lli to be there for its workers and to support them.
Over the last three weeks of this emergency, potatoes have been the top-selling product in the vegetable department. This significant increase has provided impetus to production.
From 24th to 26th January, the former Romagnoli industrial warehouses (on Via Emilio Zago 3, Bologna) hosted for the second year running Paratissima, an international exhibition for independent artists, now in its third year in Bologna.
Once again this year, Romagnoli F.lli is taking part in Fruit Logistica, the main international event for the fruit and vegetable sector, scheduled from 5th to 7th February in Berlin.
Following the long sowing period, running from mid-October to late January due to the constant rain which affected all the production areas in the province of Syracuse, the new potato situation is still being monitored.
An innovative project for an award that recognises female innovation in fruit and vegetables.
èVita Residue-Free potatoes will be coming soon to supermarket fruit and vegetable aisles, a new variety resulting from the research led by Romagnoli F.lli Spa together with Legambiente and Tuscia University, which is already available at certain major supermarket chains in northern and central Italy.
The partnership between Romagnoli F.lli Spa and Gialle & Co. is under way. The latter is a restaurant in Milan famous for giving one of the most typical British dishes an Italian twist – the baked potato – filled with typical traditional, authentic and seasonal ingredients and, from today, made using the best potato varieties supplied by Romagnoli F.lli.
For the Fruit and Vegetable Forum, an event held in Milan on 20 November 2019, where we saw the twentieth edition of Speciale Frutta & Verdura, Romagnoli F.lli took part in the discussion regarding the potato production sector.
For the twentieth edition of Speciale Frutta & Verdura, held on 20 November 2019 at the Manzoni Theatre in Milan, Romagnoli F.lli will be one of the main partners of the Fruit and Vegetable Forum.
Once again this year, Romagnoli F.lli S.p.A. participated in the Potato Variety Show, an indispensable international event for operators in the potato sector.
2019 has been a particularly positive year for the McCain V range potatoes marketed by Romagnoli F.lli S.p.A., for which we estimate an increase in sales of 31% by volume and 43% by value compared to 2018.
To map out a shared pathway between institutional deciders, citizens, and operators in the sector on the theme of agriculture and the future, and to promote the good practices already being employed on the territories.
For the 11th edition of Festival Francescano (Bologna 27-29 September 2019), the festival audience was able to attend the fast conference “Dialogue: the result of working together”.
The company has reached another milestone in terms of sustainability and food safety by achieving “Residuo Zero”, a certification from the body Check Fruit.
Festambiente 2019 was one of the most well-attended editions ever, which took place in Rispescia from 14th to 18th August.
The collaboration between Romagnoli F.lli S.p.A. and Festambiente is back, the Legambiente national festival which has been taking place in Rispescia (Grosseto) for thirty-one years, at the historic Maremma location of this environmental association.
Romagnoli F.lli Spa keeps growing. The company closed 2018 with 33.4 million euros of revenue, revealing an increase of 2.4% compared with the previous year.
Today came the announcement of the eleventh edition of Festival Francescano, which will be held in Bologna from 27th to 29th September 2019.
Romagnoli F.lli Spa’s potato harvest for 2018/2019 has come to a more than positive end.
On 4 July, at the Selva Maggiore farm in Bologna, Romagnoli F.lli Spa presented the results of the first field experiment in Italy to grow varieties of potatoes that are resistant to Peronospora, using methods that have a low environmental impact.
With a score of 99.57/100, Romagnoli F.lli Spa is continuing to receive qualifications for its work, having renewed its International Featured Standards (IFS) processing certification for its plant in Molinella (BO). It achieved an excellent result (Higher level), which was better than the previous audit.
The second showing of “Music that Helps” will take to the stage on Thursday 23rd May at the Bristol Theatre in Bologna – at 9.00 p.m., in Via Toscana 146. This is a charity performance that supports the social welfare work of the Committee of Bologna of the Italian Red Cross.
The Bologna-based company is continuing its commitment towards high-quality, sustainable farming. A new farming technique using integrated voluntary pest management, which forgoes the use of glyphosate and other synthetic chemicals (including phosphites, phenylamides, Qo inhibitors, and strobilurin).
Quality, research and innovation, sustainability, and the supply chain: Romagnoli F.lli Spa will be focusing on these topics at the next edition of Macfrut (Rimini Expo Centre, 8-10th May 2019).
A charity performance “Music that Helps” in Medicina
With its red peel and compact flesh, the Alouette is one of the Agrico seed potato varieties sold by Romagnoli.
Large tubers with yellow flesh and bright skin: these are Colomba potatoes, a variety of potato from HZPC that matures extremely early. They are one of the numerous varieties of seed potatoes sold by Romagnoli.
After the freezing temperatures at the beginning of January and the saline winds at the end of February, potato production throughout the Syracuse region experienced varying levels of success.
After their “Field Potatoes - Friends of the Environment” initiative, the company has been getting some new projects underway, which aim to use sustainable methods of farming that respect both the environment and people.
Semi-firm flesh, slightly salty flavour, remaining compact even if cooked for a long time. This is the Manitou variety, one of the red skinned potatoes offered by Romagnoli.
After the cold that we saw during the first few days of January and the low temperatures in the weeks that followed, new potato production across Sicily seems rather varied.
During the last edition of Arte Fiera (Bologna, 1-4 February 2019), talented young people, and emerging and independent artists gathered at Paratissima, an international fair founded in Turin 15 years ago, which chose the former Magazzini Romagnoli warehouses on Via Zago for its second edition in Bologna.
Perfect for growing in central and northern Italy, Constance is one of the varieties launched by Romagnoli together with its partner, Agrico.
A project which invites people to reinterpret the value of fruit and vegetables through twentieth-century art and modern design.
Particularly suitable for growing in central and northern Italy, Vivaldi is one of the HZPC varieties offered by Romagnoli.
Romagnoli is joining the party on Facebook and Instagram with two profiles all about the company’s news, interesting facts and delicious potato-based recipes.
The many varieties of potatoes offered by Romagnoli include Cayenne red potatoes, developed with its business partner, Agrico.
Thanks to the research and experience of the Consortium, where Romagnoli F.lli is a member, the Selenella range of vegetables is being improved with three new products, all 100% made in Italy.
Suitable for all farming areas in Italy and perfect for any cooking use, Levante is the new potato variety developed in collaboration with Agrico.
The ethics protocol certifies the implementation of good practices and responsible conduct towards workers and employees.
The fertile soil and mild climate of southern Italy provide the perfect growing conditions for the Laudine variety, a new kind of potato with a medium-early cycle developed by Romagnoli F.lli Spa in collaboration with Agrico.
A semi-late variety with the elongated shape typical of new potatoes: meet Generosa, the new potato by Romagnoli recently introduced in Sicily.
The planting phase is underway for Sicilian new potatoes, a revered local product grown mostly in coastal areas of the Siracusa, Ragusa and Catania provinces.
We believe that being a business means being a real factor within the local community, listening to its needs and actively participating in its day-to-day life.
On the heels of our collaboration with Legambiente, which resulted in the “Patata di Campo-Amica dell’Ambiente” project, Romagnoli F.lli Spa took part in the 30th edition of Festambiente, held, as is customary, in the town of Rispescia (GR, Tuscany) from 10 to 19 of August.
Starting Tuesday, 31 October, “Patata di Campo-Amica dell’Ambiente” will be available at 155 Ce.Di.Gros locations in the Rome metropolitan area and throughout the Lazio region.
Romagnoli F.lli Spa wrapped up 2017 with strong performance numbers across the board: revenue reached 32.7 million Euro (+7.4%), the number of products increased by 8.7% (seed potatoes, food potatoes, packaged products) and deliveries grew significantly as well (+20%).
Minimise the amount of water used in agriculture, considerably reduce the use of fertilisers and pesticides, and curtail CO2 emissions: these are the goals behind the partnership between Romagnoli F.lli Spa and Legambiente, which created the first agricultural production chain for high-quality potatoes grown with water-saving irrigation systems.
The 2018 potato season is looking bright for the Bologna area.
An unexpected gift for Massimo Bulgarelli, new member of Lions Club Bologna San Petronio: during a recent gathering of the Club, Massimo received the “BEL” Electronic White Cane, a device for the blind, from Romagnoli F.lli Spa president Giulio Romagnoli.
Italy is renowned for its vast wealth of gastronomical treasures, which is revered around the world. But alongside the most famous productions, there are less-known products that are equally representative of wonderful local traditions.
It is now possible to use your smartphone to analyse different potato cultivations, and also to get real-time information on soil temperature, moisture and CO2 levels by planting an electronic potato among the tubers.
Tradition, research and innovation combine with a steadfast commitment to make the production cycle eco-friendly. This year too, our distinctive traits will be on display in Rimini, from 9 to 11 May, at the Macfrut trade fair (pavilion D3, booth 001).
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